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Vera House Honors Syracuse University Students with Special Appreciation Award

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Two Syracuse University sophomore students, Eric and Anthony McGriff, twin brothers in The College of Arts and Sciences, were among a group of honorees who were presented with the Special Appreciation Award at the Vera House Annual Recognition and Celebration…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with Professor Roy Gutterman: Balancing Privacy and National Security

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in counterterrorism have jarred the American public into a debate about privacy rights versus national security. A former National Security Agency contractor employee, Edward Snowden, leaked information that the N.S.A. collects the…

Media, Law & Policy

NABJ SU Chapter Is Finalist for Student Chapter of the Year

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The SU chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists is one of three student chapter finalists for NABJ Student Chapter of the Year Award. The student chapter winner will be announced at the association’s 38th Annual Convention and Career Fair in Orlando, Fla., in July.

Onondaga Citizens League Releases Study Report ‘The World at Our Doorstep’

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Eileen Jevis

The Onondaga Citizens League released the results of its study “The World at Our Doorstep.” Heidi Holtz and Kristen Mucitelli-Heath co-chaired the study. Holtz is the director of research and programs at the Gifford Foundation. Mucitelli-Heath is the director of…

Registration Open for New Librarianship MOOC

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has opened registration for its second massive open online course (MOOC), the “New Librarianship Master Class.” “The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet,”…

STEM

Success in Engineering

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

L.C. Smith Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel and her colleagues are putting strategies in place to help keep students engaged and strengthen retention rates beginning this fall. Their efforts got a recent boost.

Business & Economy

Desire, Resources for Self-Employment Grow with Age, Says Whitman Study

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By News Staff

Starting a business is no longer a “young person’s game,” according to new research by Maria Minniti, a professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Minniti and her co-authors, professors Teemu Kautonen and Simon Down of Anglia Ruskin…

Sperm Wars Ruled by Females?

Monday, June 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

SU study finds that females play active, pivotal role in postcopulatory processes Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Their findings are the subject of a…

STEM

Gina Lee-Glauser Named Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Thursday, June 6, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research at Syracuse University and research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The…

Gebbie Clinic Enrolling Kids for Summer Literacy Camp

Thursday, June 6, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Phonological Awareness Camp for Kids (P.A.C.K.) promotes literacy development in fun environment Syracuse University is looking for a few budding bookworms to enroll in its annual Phonological Awareness Camp for Kids (P.A.C.K.). The camp will meet every Tuesday from July…